Quakes (Science Exploration)

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Science Exploration (QUAKES class)
Week of April 30
Grade 5:
  • Practicing Tables and Graphs
  • Physical/Chemical Change
  • Walk Through a Piece of Paper
  • Nutrition labels
  • It's in the Chips activity
  • Mass of Pennies lab

Grade 6:
  • Earth's Resources
  • Resource Dominoes
  • Changes to Earth's Surface
  • Interpreting an Ancient Puzzle


Week of May 7:
Grade 5:
  • Rules of Graphing
  • Plate Tectonics/ Broken Plates puzzle
  • Drifting Continents
  • Constructive/destructive forces on Earth
  • Earth Science vocabulary

Grade 6:
  • Glaciers
  • Planets orbiting the Sun
  • Earth's rotation and revolution
  • Solar system drawing
  • Comparing the Earth and the Moon
  • Moon phases


Week of May 14
Grade 5:
  • Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
  • Landforms
  • Tectonic Plates
  • How Much Water Can They Hold? lab. Compare absorbency of brands of paper towels
  • Research volcanoes, earthquakes, and landslides

Grade 6:
  • Features and Phases of the Moon
  • The stars
  • Moon Chip Mines Lab (mining for ore on the Moon)
  • Features of the Moon


Week of May 21
Grade 5:
  • Class Presentations from the research on earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides
  • Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks
  • Shake, Rattle, and Roll lab (weathering)
  • Physical and Chemical weathering
  • Rock Cycle
  • Famous Rock Groups lab

Grade 6:
  • Model of the Sun lab
  • Solar system
  • Comparing the Moon, Sun, and the Earth
  • Visible light
  • Transparent, translucent, and opaque
  • Explorations of Light lab (color pictures and look through filters to see hidden words or objects)


Week of May 28 (Monday, May 28 - No school, Memorial Day)
Grade 5:
  • Colored Candies lab and graph
  • Carving out the Grand Canyon (weathering and erosion)
  • Last day - Bring snack, video

Grade 6:
  • Burning Candle lab
  • The Man who Saved the Children (studying famous scientists)
  • Last day - Bring snack, video